Vol 12, No 1, 2013 pp. 97-101
UDC 1:523
ON THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO KEPLER
Norma Pastelidou
National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Social Theology, Greece
Email: NormaRouge@gmail.com
''If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giant'', is what Isaac Newton said. One of them was Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630), whose research substantially contributed to the heliocentric figure of the universe we now adhere to. We have in mind the planets moving around the Sun along elliptical paths, expressed by his laws, and the hypothesis that they are influenced by it. It was the birthplace of Newton’s universal law of gravitation. This confirmed the ancient idea of a well-built harmonic universe, supported by the Pythagorean idea of a number that regulates all things in the universe, and Plato's five regular solids and so on, as well as Aristotle's doctrine of heavenly spheres, up until Copernicus heliocentric system.
Key words: harmony, elliptic path, law, Pythagoras, Plato, Copernicus, Newton.
O HARMONIJI SVEMIRA: OD ANTIKE DO KEPLERA
''To što sam video dalje, stoga je što sam gledao s ramena giganata'', rekao je Isak Njutn. Jedan od njih bio je Johan Kepler (1571-1630), čije je istraživanje suštinski doprinelo heliocentričnoj slici svemira kojoj se priklanjamo danas. Imamo u vidu kretanje planeta oko Sunca po eliptičnim putanjama, izražene njegovim zakonima, kao i hipotezu da to čine pod njegovim uticajem. Bilo je to rodno mesto Njutnovog univerzalnog zakona gravitacije. Tako se potvrdila antička ideja o harmonički sazdanom univerzumu - jer idu tome u prilog i Pitagorejska zamisao broja, kojim su uređene sve stvari u svemiru, i Platonovih pet tela pravilnog oblika, jednako kao i Aristotelovo učenje o nebeskim sferama itd., sve do Kopernikanskog heliocentričnog sistema.
Ključne reči: harmonija, eliptična putanja, zakon, Pitagora, Platon, Kopernik, Njutn.
